Yet another case of just because you can…
Everything that disrupts surveillance is good. People concerned with the “fairness” of tolls and tickets, or that a criminal might benefit are just grown-ass hall-monitors and it’s pathetic.
I disagree on this case. Disrupting surveillance blending unpaid tolls into society is one thing, but this doubles as identity theft with the burden placed on one innocent individual. It’s not victimless in the sense a thief makes off with a few dollars saved like an obscured plate, it puts the accusation on a specific different person. They then have the legal trouble to deal with individually. This is something that should be as secure as a standard physical plate (which isn’t truly that secure at all).
Yeah, it would be like committing crimes while fooling facial recognition to identify you as a random innocent person instead of just identifying no one.
I guess in the long run it could erode confidence in the system (I know it already misidentifies people regularly) but in the short term, innocents would suffer.
Yeah, there have been cases of people dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare that followed when they got vanity license plates that said “NULL” and a bunch of bad program logic combined with incomplete data in the databases to send them a bunch of tickets.
Making it so that people can take advantage of even more complex computer errors could ruin things for other people.
Digital license plate
I understand the words, but the phrase makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
Seriously. I see exactly one use case, and that’s for criminals of one sort or another to mask their identity during the commission of a crime. It’s not like law abiding citizens are able to use them to protect their privacy in any way.
It’s not like digital IDs, where it’s one less thing to carry and potentially more secure. Your plate or this plate are fixed to your car the same way, both are (legally) static, and the only thing that changes is the ease of faking your plate.
Imagine a digital plate being a vulnerability. I’m shocked.
You can also 3D print a regular plate, but at least that doesn’t change on demand.
That’s the only reason I can think you’d want a digital license plate, to change it on demand.
Its just e-waste.
What is the point of a digital license plate anyways?
If it can malfunction, it can be replaced.
Replacement costs money.
The spice must flow.
